Discussion Due South Communities

[mekare]

Hey everyone! I love the new influx of people and seeing new comms come into existence! I have been reading a lot because of the recent Tumblr purge and a post talked about how hard it is to get activity going in comms and to keep them alive. We are a tenacious lot here and I am confident we’ll keep the noticeboard going.

But since our fandom is pretty small over here (though probably growing, there’s a new comm imported from Tumblr dsvirtualbar) I was thinking what to do with ds_flashback. And just, if we should keep comms as broad and open as possible or give them definite uses? Like, noticeboard is for basically everything (links to recs, meta, cons, discussions etc), duesouth which has a lot more members (though not much activity) for fanworks and keep ds_flashback as an archive of older recs? I have no influence on duesouth as helen78 is mod there, and for ds_flashback I am only a comod.
Basically I would like this to be a central gathering place, though I’m not sure it is in reality. I’m trying to see this from a newbie’s perspective, it might be helpful to know where to find what kind of fanstuff? What do you all think?

Comments

[higglety]

Hi there! as a recent tumblr import. I'm still getting my bearings, but I was thinking it might be helpful to know that one thing I'd like to do is have virtual watch (or re-watch, as the case may be) parties, or episode specific discussion posts, or something, and I was hoping I could find folks to do that with. Otherwise I'll just end up yelling into the void, which is still fun, but less so.

[mekare]

Welcome! Episode rewatch or discussion sounds very good to me, I’ll make a poll about that soon. I haven’t been in the fandom very long (about a yearish?) and I haven’t watched everything yet! So I totally get the need to talk about stuff :-) I linked some episode reaction posts here in this comm (e.g. here), or just browse through the +meta tag.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Oooooh! You've got some fun coming up (it's due South, it's all fun, just a question of major or minor key.)

I only got to watch the Ray K once the DVDs came out.